It's not your imagination. Windows installation files have been creeping up in size. It might even be fair to call them ...

Twenty-five years ago, Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, called “Linux a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.” At Build 2026 in June, the same company ...

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It’s easy to end up with a collection of USB sticks gathering dust in your home from promotional giveaways, hand-me-downs, or old sticks you ditched in favour of newer ones with more storage. You’re ...

With so many Linux distros out there, and each maintaining unique and not-always-consistent release cycles, it can be hard to keep up with what's new. To keep you in the loop, here are some of the ...

Zena is built on top of Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (“Noble Numbat”), bringing Mint’s traditional desktop approach together with Ubuntu’s well-tested foundation and extensive software repositories. It ships ...

If you are looking to use Linux Mint without creating a separate partition on your computer, a hypervisor such as VMware Workstation is the way to go. In this post, we will see a step-by-step guide to ...

Window Maker Live 13.2 is stubbornly keeping 32-bit PCs alive on Debian 13 "Trixie," shipping a new release that boots on i686 hardware. We last looked at Window Maker Live in 2023. That release was ...

In order to dual boot Window 11 and Linux, find out all about Secure Boot interfering with Linux dual boot. For the procedure to work, create a separate partition and install the new operating system ...

If you can't upgrade to Windows 11, or don't like what you've seen of it, install Linux Mint instead. Here's how to make the switch to an open-source operating system and install apps. Our team tests, ...